This week’s Hot Mess is one thing all of us puzzled about. The Hammerfall Bunker – an enormous piece of plastic GI-Joe plastic that’s purported to strike the worry within the hearts of the Space Marine’s enemies.
I believe we are able to all agree the Hammerfall Bunker appears goofy. You’d suppose it could have extra stoic-looking angel issues on it. But nope we get one thing that appears like somebody designed a nook and copied that design 3 extra occasions to create this field of weirdness. Is it purported to be a constructing Space Marines can conceal in? Is it an enormous Missile Launcher factor? What is it even for?
I’m high-quality with terrain nevertheless it must encourage issues. Or at the very least do stuff aside from shoot poorly and appear to be some type of bizarre off-brand “battle person” set you would purchase at a reduction greenback retailer. You might think about some type of character like “Lady Janet” operating round and pretending to shoot the “Rattlesnake Brigade” with it.
Hammerfall Bunker 101
Pulling up my GW app and I’m trying this scorching mess up. Oh my lord – it’s 175 factors for a Single Heavy Bolter or a Single Heavy Flamer plus that Missile Thing on prime. It hits on a 4+ in some way and it doesn’t even maintain any Marines. I don’t find out about you however in my e-book, a Bunker is a constructing I can go into. It additionally has Heavy Bolters on all the edges so why can’t it at the very least shoot 2 of them? Man and all of this for 175 factors simply looks like… what’s the frigging level proper?
Let’s Make the Gun Good
Ok this factor has 4 Heavy Bolters on it so it ought to simply shoot 12 occasions. It simply ought to do this as a result of it is sensible. On prime of that, it ought to hit on a 3+. That is simply the bottom degree of being considerably usable. The Missile on prime has a critical case of “old codex bad rules” with a very bizarre profile. I do know it’s purported to be like a cousin of the Whirlwind launcher. But when was the final time you noticed any Whirlwinds on the tabletop? Why not simply make the gun have extra pictures with higher stats. The lack of AP on the anti horde choice simply is dangerous. Let’s simply make the gun higher, 3+d3 injury on the large blast, AP -2 on the small blast, after which we are able to begin to consider this as one thing helpful.
Make it a Bunker – It’s In the Name!
Why not let it maintain fashions in there? Wouldn’t that be attention-grabbing as you would say – ahead deploy it and have a rule the place you would ahead deploy a unit. Maybe it prices factors, possibly it prices CP, or simply have it’s free and so they Garrison a unit. This might be an attention-grabbing factor and make it tactically attention-grabbing.
How About Some Leadership Rules?
Gw might let it turn out to be a command middle the place a few of your characters can unfold their Auras out in all places. You must reroll 1’s over right here – get within the bunker and shout within the microphone. Do you need your Chaplain to encourage somebody down the road – how about letting it enhance auras for some issues? There are lots of little issues you would do to make it higher that simply don’t contain it being a gun.
Who Has Hammerfall Bunkers?
Someone purchased and painted up a few of these so why not make them good? Heck, they might be ammunition storage or some type of energy space that amps up your weapons. Your Lascannons and Plasma get additional injury. Your bolter-like weapons now get additional pictures. Just make this a cool piece of substances that may present up on the battlefield.
Let us know the way you’d repair the unit, down within the feedback!
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Thomas Reidy, aka Goatboy, the ever-evil member of BoLS. I do arts, play 40k, and even paint lots of stuff. I’ve been enjoying Warhammer 40K because the Nineteen Nineties, and have received a number of nationwide occasions together with Adepticon and GW GTs. I’ve been writing for BoLS for 15 years. Look at my Instagram to see what I’m engaged on – or engaged on for somebody. I’m all the time doing one thing interest associated.
